On the screen, a clock appeared against a dark ground.
He sits like a pasha on a throne, against a dark ground, all but filling the frame.
Feathers glazed hemlines, and insets of black patent leather were effective on black wool day dresses, throwing light on a dark ground.
The new show contains another pair, of comparable magnificence, House and Garden, made entirely out of blobs on a dark ground.
They all find an echo in an eerie collage by Florian Pumhösl, consisting primarily of a piece of pre-Columbian weaving displayed on a dark ground.
The city is burning; Rembrandt brushed smoke in thin, wild strokes over a dark ground; against this violent holocaust the prophet rests in a disorienting diagonal.
In "The Beggars," for instance, he tried to reverse the tones of light figures on a dark ground, leaving a foggy area that adds to the scene's mystique.
Will Barnet's elegant geometric composition "Enclosure/Enveloping Forms," with a light purple spiral against a dark ground, is a particularly good example.
As a result, while you are always quite conscious of the paint, applied quickly and surely to a dark ground, only gradually do you make out the furniture and objects, or distinguish them from the projections.
Moreover, he revived the practice of white-line printing, a method of printing white lines on a dark ground by making impressions from ink rolled onto the surface of the engraved relief instead of from ink held in its furrows.
Botticelli and his studio executed at least two repetitions of Venus alone against a dark ground, the earliest example of a single mythological figure being extracted from a larger composition.
